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Manyi’s editing eye picks up real news
Today the front page of the ‘Manyi Times’ screams ‘Winning the HIV battle.’ It’s hard to choose what to be more bemused about: The fact that HIV seems to be front page news or the slightly controversial Jimmy Manyi having a newspaper named after his person.
But the 'Manyi Times' is not the real deal and HIV doesn’t make headlines. The front page is only an artist’s impression of what Jimmy Manyi would include in the paper if he was editor for a day.
HIV note gets the nod
There’s no pulling the wool over Daily Sun reader Noga Kobe’s eyes when it comes to HIV. The Daily Sun featured an HIV myth busting letter written by Kobe as their winning letter in Tuesday’s edition.Building the bigger bogeyman
HIV…Or even worse…AIDS. The media and the public often shy away from these topics because they are (incorrectly) associated with serious lingering illness and death.
HIV has overtaken illnesses like consumption (as TB was called prior to its official discovery in the early 1800s) and the plague and to become the specter of sickness that haunts the 21st century.
HIV therefore calls forth both fascination and revulsion. In the media it is either covered as a great tragedy or ignored completely.
Recently it would seem that the danger and fear which is associated with AIDS and HIV is exploited in order to illustrate that other conditions should occasion even more fear and awe.
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